What Anne says about her artwork:
This subject required working with very strong primary colors. I have found that lightening primaries often produces dull color. To prevent this, I darken negative space so I can present the saturated primaries as my lights, maintaining clean color. I often use very dark color that requires a long value scale. I placed these tomatoes in very strong light to get their glow and very hard cast shadows. I brushed on saturated color so I would not have to go back and layer. Charging the pigment onto the paper, I could wash it out a bit to lighten without losing the character of the color.